The question is, how big of a shakeup was Geneva’s 10-3 win at Penn Yan on April 16?

Is Geneva’s first win over Penn Yan in five years a big signal that there could be a change at the top of Class C? Penn Yan is a two-time defending sectional champion, with 14 of the last 15 titles in Section V’s classification for the smallest schools.

Maybe Geneva’s first win at Penn Yan in 17 years was a feel good moment, nothing more or less.

There are six 2012 first-team Finger Lakes All-Stars on the Geneva roster, including team points leader Sean Cunningham (22 points), who has 14 goals and eight assists. All of the Panthers can say at least one thing after their win over Penn Yan.

Geneva (5-1) moves into the No. 1 slot in the Democrat and Chronicle‘s Section V Class C Coaches Poll, replacing its rival. Here is the poll and capsules of the top 10 teams this week:

Outlook: Geneva should be among the best in the Finger Lakes league again, as Cunningham, Hickey, Andrews, Eddington, Feinberg and senior defenseman Bobby Sollenne were 2012 all-league selections. Can the Panthers challenge Penn Yan in the sectionals?

Outlook: Success continues at Penn Yan, where the players in larger roles are asked “What are you going to contribute to this?’’ according to Hobart. An offense that includes Vogt (verbal to Syracuse) could raise the level of an inexperienced defense.

Outlook: The Bulldogs should be able to score plenty of goals, led by Bishopp (42), Kinney (40) and Wester (36). Livonia will try to stop opponents with a new starting goalie and defensemen learning as the season goes.

Outlook: There are a few younger players on the roster and in the lineup, but the Little Irish still aim for the sectional championship. Penn State-bound Lombardi is described as a perfect leader by example for this type of team.

Outlook: Last season’s record seems like a good building block. Gananda’s 6-1 record this spring includes a shutout and a one-goal win over Waterloo. Pane does believe that defense, with Joy, is the team’s biggest strength. The measure games are a rematch with Waterloo on April 23, at home versus Palmyra-Macedon on April 25 and at home versus Geneva on May 4.

Outlook: Can the Red Raiders stay with or outpace Geneva for the Finger Lakes league title? Reeves is back after he collected a few awards last season, and should lead an attack that produces. A rematch with Geneva is May 7 at home.

Outlook: Mynderse lost by a goal in last season’s sectional playoffs. The Blue Devils are winners of their last three after a loss to Gananda in the season-opener. They will have to get past Geneva on the road April 27 and Palmyra-Macedon May 4th at home to get that win streak to double-digits.

Outlook: Waterloo was a division champion in the Finger Lakes league last season, but it will be a challenge to pull off the same accomplishment. The Finger Lakes league consists of one division, which puts the Indians in with Palmyra-Macedon and Geneva. “We are very young and will need our young players to play big roles in order to be successful.”

Outlook: Both wins for Marcus Whitman (2-3) came after the Wildcats put balls in the net, as they scored 10 or more goals. It’s when the Wildcats face more established teams when Marcus Whitman struggles. Can the Wildcats produce back-to-back winning seasons?

The Webster Thomas and Pittsford hockey teams are holding fund-raisers at upcoming games.

The 5:30 p.m. “Honor Our Heroes” game vs. Victor at Webster Ice Arena on Jan. 11 will raise funds for CDS Monarch Warrior Salute Program. The Thomas Titans will wear camouflage jerseys to honor all service men and women, including EMTs and first-responders.

Pittsford’s 7 p.m. game on Feb. 2 against Thomas is its fourth annual “Pink The Rink,” game to benefit the Breast Cancer Coaliation of Rochester. Both teams will don special pink jerseys. For more information, go to www.pittsfordhockey.org.

— By Jeff DiVeronica

What’s next , Red Raiders?: Fairport, undefeated and motivated, topped its seventh opponent by double-digits when it defeated Bishop Kearney 59-45 on Jan. 3 to improve to 8-0.

The crowd of 1,392 fans probably was larger than the attendance at Fairport’s quarterfinal round exit from last season’s sectionals.

“It was a great win,” Fairport senior guard Brian Sortino said. “It was hyped all week. It’s probably one of the best atmospheres I’ve played in.”

The Red Raiders hardly have the look of a one-and-done team this winter.

“We had the potential to do this last year,” Fairport senior forward/guard Tyler LePore said.

Fairport nearly had four players score in double figures again, after LePore finished with nine points, all of which came on 3-pointers. Eli Jones (21.5 points per game), Alex Doche (14.5), Joe Masino (10.5) and Sortino (12.1) are Fairport’s leading scorers.

“We had the potential to do this last year,” LePore said. “This year, we’ve been together.”

Fairport’s games against Rush-Henrietta have a history as crowd magnets, too.

The Red Raiders could find themselves in front of another filled gymnasium at Fairport against Rush-Henrietta, 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9.

Rush-Henrietta (5-1), also one-and-done in last season’s Section V Class AA1 Tournament after three sectional championships in four years, may be on its way back to form.

Fairport took over the No. 1 position in the Democrat and Chronicle‘s large schools boys basketball poll just before its win over No. 2 Bishop Kearney (2-3), the previous local top-ranked team.

Brockport senior quarterback Tom Sydeski passed for 2,098 yards with a school-record 24 touchdown passes last season for Brockport. The Blue Devils were a Monroe County division champion for the first time.

The win by Victor’s boys lacrosse over Pittsford was the type that could energize a team, according to coach Mike Gottko, who is in his second year with the Blue Devils.

A 13-12 win over Pittsford on May 17 extended the Blue Devils’ win streak to five games and improved the Class B team’s record to 9-7.

“They are a reputable program with a strong coaching staff,” Gottko said about last season’s Class A state semfinalist. “I don’t believe that we’ve beaten them before.

“We’re excited about sectionals and seeing if we can advance. We have not advanced to the semifinals in some time.”

Victor plays at McQuaid in a Section V Tournament quarterfinal, 7 o’clock on Wednesday, May 23.

The Blue Devils will bring a lineup in which T.J. DiSanto, John Maloney, Max Hill, Mitch Rupp and Roy Young have scored 20 or more goals. Maloney, a senior midfielder, leads Victor in goals (40) and points (64). Rupp, who has 26 assists, may be the team’s top playmaker.

Group tournament-bound: CTC Elite, a team of local high school football players, are headed to the New Level Athletics Elite 7-on-7 National Championship in New York City, June 29- July 1.

The event is covered by ESPN and some of the top college football recruiting media outlets in the nation.

CTC Elite team of 20 includes players in grades seven through 11, and are members of the Changing The Community program founded by Greg Hopkins, of Rochester.

Rush-Henrietta junior Chauncey Scissum, a quarterback last fall, has scholarship offers from five schools, including the State University of New York at Buffalo, according to Hopkins.

Spencerport wrestling position: The search is officially open and on for a new head varsity wrestling coach at Spencerport.

No surprise there is interest, high expectations or not.

Candidates made their interest known even before the Spencerport Central School District posted the position opening on May 15. Athletic director John Pelin said the hope is to have a candidate to replace Tony D’Ambra in front of the Spencerport school board on June 12.

That candidate will be chosen by an interview committee that includes members of the Spencerport wrestling parents club, administrators from at least one youth wrestling program in the community, a current assistant wrestling coach, another Spencerport varsity coach and an administator in the district.

“We’ve always do this when handling a varsity coaching position,” Pelin said.

East High and Elba won girls basketball state championships this past season, which put players and coaches from the teams on the top tier of all-state awards.

East High's Aaliyah Dunbar (1) and Rose Ayala were named first-team all-state in Class A girls basketball.

Mario Velazquez is the New York State Sportswriters Association’s Class A state coach of the year after East won it’s first state title in March. East junior forward Rose Ayala and senior point guard Aaliyah Dunbar are among the five first-team all-state player selections.

Tom Nowak, who has 438 wins in 25 seasons at Elba , is the coach of the year in Class D. Elba finished 25-0 last season, led by junior guard McKenzie Bezon, the player of the year in the classification. Senior forward Meg Stucko also was named first-team all-state.

Aquinas senior Nicole Bini, first-team all-state in Class B, was a finalist for the state’s Ms. Basketball award that went to Class AA player of the year and Cicero-North Syracuse senior Breanna Stewart.

College commitments: Another signing period for potential college athletes is open, and one of the area’s top high school golfers plans to finalize her commitment on Friday.

Pittsford Mendon senior Gabrielle Sacheli will sign a letter of intent to play at Rutgers University at her school on Friday. Sacheli was medalist five times in the Pittsford team’s 10 matches and was named to the Democrat and Chronicle’s All-Greater Rochester team for the fifth time last season.

A pair of AGR athletes from Honeoye Falls-Limed signed letters on Monday.

Courtney Budynas, a Democrat and ChronicleAll-Greater Rochester Softball shortstop last season, will sign a letter of intent to play at Saint John’s University. Matt Allen, a 2011 AGR Golf team member, plans to play at Pfeiffer University in North Carolina.

Aaliyah Dunbar, point guard of East High’s girls basketball state champion team, said she will attend and play at Casper College in Wyoming.

Casper plays at the Division I level of the National Junior College Athletic Association.

Courtney Budynas

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Hornell senior Dominic Scavo, a two-time Class B football state player of the year, is headed to Ithaca College.

Hornell was 39-0 with Scavo at quarterback, and the Red Raiders won three state championships.

Scavo, who plans to major in political science, said he still may try to also play baseball at Ithaca.

Next for HF-L’s Hoyt: Dan Hoyt, who will not return as Honeoye Falls-Lima’s varsity football coach next season, has joined the staff at Pittsford as an assistant.

Hoyt’s son Brady, is a sophomore in the Pittsford program.

“I don’t want to miss any of his games,’’ Hoyt said.

John Russ, an assistant the last four seasons at HF-L, is the Cougars new varsity football coach.

State Senate to honor East: Players and coaches from the team were scheduled to visit the state Senate on Wednesday as guests of Sen. Joe

There are no less than four Section V boys teams in the top 10 of the Class B state rankings.

That means three very good teams will not advance out of the Section V

Pittsford Mendon hopes that the depth of its boys teams will be enough to win what should be a very competitive Section V B Championship on November 5 at Genesee Community College.

Championships and into the state meet.

Only the top team in each classification gets to go intact, including in cases like Class D in Section V, where there are so many schools in that category that the class was split into two groups.

Brighton, ranked No. 1 among Class B teams in the state, No. 4 Pittsford Sutherland, No. 7 Honeoye Falls-Lima and No. 8 Pittsford Mendon are believed to be the top contenders for the sectional championship Saturday, November 5 at Genesee Community College.

“I would say whoever wins is the favorite to win the state title,” HF-L coach Bernie Gardner said. “They will have knocked out three other top schools.”

Gardner, in his 25th season as a cross country coach at HF-L, said he can’t remember the last time he seen a classfication like this year’s Class B group.

“It’s a one-day winner-take-all cage match,” Gardner said.

Here is this week’s Section V Large Schools Coaches Polls after impressive wins by the Rush-Henrietta boys and Canandaigua girls at the Monroe County Championships on Oct. 29:

Now that the division races in Monroe County cross country have been settled, it is time for the league championship meet.

Coaches’ decisions add an open-the-door quality to the meet, Oct. 29 this year at Parma Park in Hilton, as some teams hold back to concentrate on sectionals.

The three boys division winners are nationally-ranked Rush-Henrietta, 22nd in the ESPN Powerade Fab 50, Hilton in Division II and Honeoye Falls-Lima, ranked No. 4 among Class B teams in the state.

Rush-Henrietta, No. 1 in the latest Section V Large Schools coaches poll, was far from a surprise winner of Division I. It will interesting to see how hard the Royal Comets go at the league meet and with whom out of their deep lineup.

Irondequoit meanwhile, completed a successful and quiet season in the league standings. The Eagles lost to one team in the division: Rush-Henrietta.

Hilton was led by sophomore Tyler Ranke, who won three of the five league meets he competed in and the boys sophomore race during the McQuaid Invitational. Ranke also set three school course records.

Honeoye Falls-Lima had to defeat Pittsford Mendon, ranked No. 2 in the state in Class B, to claim its second division title in three years.

Each week Ontario Honda, a sponsor of Section V Football, provides offensive and defensive player of the week awards in each classification. The award-winners are based on nominations by coaches. The Democrat and Chronicle staff has no input on the selections.

Pittsford running back Dominic DeLucia, a load to tackle because of his strength, helped the Panthers earn the Section V Class AA Tournament

CLASS AA: Dominic DeLucia (Pittsford). The 5’9″, 200-pound senior running back gained 357 yards and scored 4 touchdowns on 25 carries in his team’s 48-0 win over Webster Thomas. DeLucia left the game with seven minutes left in the third quarter after he broke the single-season team record set by Jazzmen Williams in 1999.

Honeoye Falls-Lima's Dylan Swetman and teammates have advanced into the Section V Class A Tournament.

scored three touchdowns in Hornell’s 35-0 victory over Bath. He has rushed for 1,027 yards on 96 carries and 14 touchdowns.

CLASS C: Brandon Passalacqua (Mynderse Academy). Junior running back carried the ball 31 times for 246 yards. He also caught a pass for 20 yards and scored two touchdowns in Mynderse’s 27-25 loss to Dundee.

Class DD: Tyler Kirton (Bishop Kearney). Sophomore quarterback threw for 353 yards on 25 of 38 passing. He hit for four touchdowns and three 2-point conversions in the King’s 38-30 loss to Class B Batavia.

CLASS D: Xavier Copeland (Geneseo). Senior quarterback repeats as a player of the week after he ran for 215 yards on 31 carries and passed for 100 more yards after he completed 6 of 10 attempts. He scored four touchdowns rushing, passed for another and ran for a 2-point conversion in Geneseo’s 44-36 playoff clinching-win over York.

CLASS B: Zack Bacon (Hornell). The six-foot, 215-pound junior linebacker made 17 tackles in Hornell’s 35-0 victory over Bath, the third Hornell shutout in the last four games. He also had a quarterback hurry and a forced fumble.

Rush-Henrietta‘s boys cross country team missed a chance to beat Shaker of Section II last week.

The Royal Comets get another shot today, as both nationally-ranked teams

Shaker's Mike Libruk and Rush-Henrietta's Nate Kozyra kick toward the finish of the large schools seeded race at the McQuaid Invitational on Oct. 1. Libruk won the race. Kozrya's runner-up finish was fast enough to produce the fastest time by a boy from Section V at the meet.

will run in the same division at the Manhattan College Cross Country Invitational.

Shaker, which just outside of Albany, and Rush-Henrietta are in the Eastern States Championship race in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx.

Both teams are ranked in the ESPN High School Powerade Fab 50, Shaker at No. 13 and Rush-Henrietta at No. 29.

Shaker edged Rush-Henrietta by three points in the large schools seeded race at the McQuaid Invitational, despite a second-, sixth- and seventh-place for the Royal Comets.

Rush-Henrietta senior Nate Kozyra was part of a strong lead pack that included Victor’s MJ Erb and Honeoye Falls-Lima’s Cooper Roach. Shaker senior Mike Libruk emerged as the winner in 15 minutes, 28 seconds on the three-mile course.

“Every time someone made a move it was countered then it was about pushing past that,” Erb said.

Irondequoit was the big mover in the boys large schools rankings, which is topped by Rush-Henrietta. Oakfield-Alabama‘s boys and girls have that distinction in the small schools boys and girls polls provided by Section V coaches.

Pittsford Mendon, No. 2 in the boys large schools rankings, remains the top-ranked Class B team in the

Jeff DiVeronica has covered Section V for the Democrat and Chronicle since 1994. A native of Canastota, N.Y., where he played soccer, basketball and baseball, “Devo” began his career at the Chillicothe (Ohio) Gazette before returning to Rochester in 1993. The St. John Fisher College graduate also covers the Rochester Rhinos soccer team and Syracuse University basketball. He founded the Canandaigua National Bank High School Sports Show, which airs Saturdays at noon on WHTK-AM (1280), in 2003. E-mail Jeff at jdiveron@DemocratandChronicle.com.Follow:@RocDevo

James Johnson has covered Section V for the Democrat and Chronicle since 1996. The St. John Fisher College and Edison graduate also has provided features and game stories tied to NASCAR, professional golf, baseball, hockey, boxing and tennis. His career began in 1995 at the Press-Sun Bulletin in Binghamton, where he helped cover Section IV high school sports. E-mail James at jamesj@DemocratandChronicle.com.Follow:@jjDandC